Staff Systems Engineer, Depot & Offhail AutomationActive$284K

The opportunity

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to…

What you'll do

  • Work with cross functional teams including software engineers, product: managers, and operations leads to develop and implement requirements, system architecture, and verification strategy for new depot & offhail automation features. You will help automate these processes to drive greater fleet efficiency including automated low power mode switching, downloading and installing new software, logging and offloading data, and more.

  • Develop deep technical understanding of existing and new depot & offhail: automation features and drive a robust end-to-end verification and monitoring system to ensure these features meet high efficacy goals

  • Develop qualification methods to launch new features and depots and provide: engineering recommendations to senior stakeholders

  • Debug field issues to determine root cause and identify solutions with cross: functional teams. Be the point person for retrospectives and implement improvements to test coverage and processes to prevent similar issues from happening in the future

  • Extend existing depot automation features to new vehicle platforms to ensure: feature parity across the diverse Waymo fleet.

  • Apply your existing technical depth to new areas and learn quickly

What they're looking for

  • A bachelor’s degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or other technical field
  • At least 8 years of experience in systems engineering, software development, or related field
  • A systems engineering mindset and a proactive, data-driven approach to fixing problems
  • Comfortable juggling multiple projects at once and working in ambiguity